Emmanuel Thomas l Tuesday, January 09, 2018
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has issued a stern warning to telecommunication companies to desist from charging candidates for failed services.
JAMB also ordered a particular service provider to refund excess charges to affected students.
JAMB noted that some banks were manually writing the ePIN for candidates as against automatic delivery to the candidates’ unique numbers thus creating the potentials for introducing unnecessary errors, warning that further infraction will warrant blacklisting, JAMB Registrar, Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede said today at a stakeholders forum in Abuja.
“In the course of monitoring the Registration exercise, we have discovered that a particular Mobile Service operator was engaging in multiple charging candidates for failed service.
“We have issued stern warning to Telecos to desist and ordered the particular service provider to refund the excess charges to the affected candidates. In the same vein, some banks were manually writing the ePIN for candidates as against automatic delivery to the candidates’ unique numbers thus creating the potentials for introducing unnecessary errors.
“A meeting was held yesterday (Monday, 8 January, 2018) with the participating banks and other payment platforms to address this issue and any further infractions of the terms of engagement will result in disengagement and blacklisting of the erring payment agents”, he said.
He explained that in addition to CBT Centres organised and aided examination malpractices, there were incidences by candidates and even examination officials.
“In a particular case, a Proctor who was a lecturer in a Federal University was caught engaging in examination malpractice with candidates in the course of the examination he had been entrusted to supervise. The matter was documented and reported to both the University and the security agencies.
“The Board is grateful to the University Management for the prompt disciplinary action in line with the University Rules and Regulations. He is also undergoing prosecution in court at the instance of the Board. Another official covered the CCTV camera in the Examination Server Room at the CBT Centre, invited a female candidate in with a promise to help boost her score and groped the young girl. His case is also on-going in court”, he said.
WAYS STUDENTS CHEAT
He revealed cheating methods students are now using.
• Bringing in prohibited materials (some hidden in places that required intrusive airport search like to discover)
• Purported answers written in parts of the body and wearables like shoes
• Engagement of mercenary candidates to write exams
• Pairing of candidates / mirroring of screens leading to a number of candidates that submitted examinations being less than the number accredited and sat for the examination at a session in the CBT Centre
• Use of Mobile Phones to take snapshot of screens and exchange information with collaborators.
